The Secretary shall prescribe, by regulations, the manner in which the regulations filed under § 2128 of this title are to be published. His regulations shall prescribe a conventional size to be used in filing the regulations pursuant to said section and shall provide that all regulations shall be accompanied by the reference to the legal authority under which said regulations or any part thereof are adopted, as well as the reference to the specific legal provisions it implements, complements or interprets, as the case may be, and a copy of the public notice referred to in § 2121 of this title. The regulations shall also require that all amendments to the regulations refer to the original regulations.
The Secretary may issue model regulations for the use of agencies as well as manuals and other instruments to facilitate the implementation of this chapter. In cases in which special laws require several agencies to issue regulations, the Secretary may file a model regulation following the procedures established in §§ 2121 et seq. of this title. Said model regulation shall apply to all agencies with the obligation to regulate except those agencies which have previously approved regulations for the subject of the model regulation.
History —Aug. 12, 1988, No. 170, § 2.9; Nov. 30, 1990, No. 18, § 7, retroactive to 6 months after Aug. 12, 1988.